Monday, July 23, 2007

My mom came out to visit last weekend. I know that I am an established 29 year old that is married, works, pays taxes, and has car insurance but whenever my mom is around suddenly I am a dependent. I think my mom likes to have excuses to still take care of me. While she was here, she payed for my gas, groceries, dinner, movie ticket, and I got to pick out a present when we went to Target (for my good behavior)!!! Kind of embarrassing that I let her do all of that but I absolutely love being taken care of. (sorry, I just ended that sentence with a preposition) I really get the best of both worlds by having her here. We are best friends and talk and laugh for hours and at the same time I get the benefits of her motherly instincts. It was also nice that she got to spend some more quality time with Ryan. We did a lot in the limited time.... D.C. Temple, National Monuments, Harry Potter movie, local sites, shopping, working out, and laying by the pool. She is so much fun! Hurray for still being mommy's little girl!

Saturday, July 7, 2007

I got a job and moved down to Raleigh this past week. Cheyney and I are separating for about seven weeks . Cheyn has to stay in F'burg, VA (3.5 hours away) and finish her contract. We'll only be able to see each other on weekends. Is that sad or what? This is the inside of our new apartment. It's so nice. High ceilings. A deck and two bedrooms. No gunshots or SWAT helicopters at two a.m. And cheaper than LA too!This is our front yard. It feels like it's in a forest. I saw a rabbit in the yard after I took this picture.This is the lake that our apartment complex is next to. There is a 2.25 mile walking/running trail around it. It's chock full of turtles and ducks and such. Everything is perfect about our new place except for Cheyn not being there all the time yet. Also notice the two bedrooms. We're working on getting a guest bed (and a bed for that matter) ASAP.

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Yes! This is my brother, Brady. Don't worry, he really isn't this redneck. Just a fun 5 minute phase between haircuts. This is an ode to my brother because he just got back from Russia. This boy is OUT OF CONTROL. In the last 12 months, he has lived and adventured in Santiago, Chile, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, St. Petersburg, Russia and Athens........... well, Georgia.

I just found out that he had a girlfriend while he was in St. Petersburg. Naturally, I dont find this out from him. He is way too secretive. I found it out from mom. She saw him walking hand in hand with a cute redhead (another UGA student). My mother felt very awkward seeing her little boy (23 years old) expressing himself this way. Everything becomes brighter and more significant when one can experience interdigitating in a foreign country. Common sense becomes cloudy because all that is wanted is an enchanted courtship. I had a romance in Russia as well. Eventhough he wasn't Russian but American and not Mormon, I thought he was the cat's meow. We got lost touring the Tzar's village and kissed during fireworks. I thought it would last because he promised to stop drinking and talk to the missionaries. When I got home, I realized he was fat.

Sorry, back to Brady. As you can tell, Brady is full of adventure. I like to think that he is following in my footsteps but he is really in a different league. He used to blow fire. You know, like put gasoline in his mouth and spit it on a torch. He almost died doing it, of course. The flame followed back to his mouth and his body went up in flames. After the fire was out, he decided that it was time to go to bed and stated, "I am a little burnt out." He spent the next day trying to hide his 2nd degree burns from my mom by wearing a hat and only looking at people with his head turned showing his good side. Well, I am not very smart because for Christmas I gave him the belt he is sporting in the picture. It not only has a big gawdy redneck buckle, but also doubles as a lighter.

Brady truly is my kindred spirit. We both have the "Webb Round Face". This is like our gang or caste system because Branagan and McKay have "oval" faces. Anything Brady and I excel at, we attribute to our round face superiority. I just wanted everyone to know that my brother is freakin' METAL!!!

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Have you had a day when all is smooth sailing and then something comes out of the blue and knocks you down? Nope this is not a repeat post. Today was my (Ryan) turn. Bad luck from the State of California comes in twos. Apparently, the DMV will not rest until the Lindgrens suffer adequately. Hubbel called and let me know that a letter had come to Hollywood. The bad news was that my registration was revoked on July 1st.

Somehow the DMV didn't have it in their systems that I have car insurance, which I really do. They contacted me about this in May, I think because I had just switched insurance and their database didn't report my current insurance (which it's suppose to do automatically). They threatened to suspend my registration. I faxed information to show that I had insurance, and relaxed, figuring everything was taken care of.

Of course it wasn't. I spent a few hours frantically calling and re-faxing today so that I can be as close to legal as I can. Everything seems to be working out and things should be cleared up by the end of this week. I am definitely going to follow up on this though. And then I just hope they will leave us alone.

On a brighter note, the Mrs.'s license was reinstated yesterday. We are trying to keep at least one of us legal to drive at all times.